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Whats the best way to add POI's?

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  • 27-12-2007 5:21pm
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    cianr
    Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭


    Whats the best way to add POI's?

    Thanks! :)


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    sharkman
    Registered Users, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 6,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭sharkman


    A bit more information would be helpful !


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    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    Have you seen the sticky? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055066420


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    cianr
    Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭cianr


    A bit more information would be helpful !

    :) Well what i mean is whats the best way to go about adding custom POI's that we can all share? I was driving around today adding a few places and it would be good if we could all upload them somewhere and share.

    Yep Ive seen POIHandler but it doesnt seem very straightforward to upload POIs - you have to put them all in a particlar group, then convert the file . . . Well i guess i could give it a shot just thought there might be a better way! :D


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    Sully
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 24,056 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sully


    All POIs, at least for garmin, are certain type of files. They can be opened in Excell to see what there like - but basically, as you described seems to be the only option for making your own. If you Google it, there are many sites like POIHandler which might offer a better alternative. The sticky I refered to has a link to another site. Google has lots :)


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    rrpc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭rrpc


    The Garmin ones are in CSV format. Basically it's just a standard text file that you can create in notepad or even DOS!

    CSV means Comma Separated Values. In other words each line contains a POI with the data separated by commas, for example:

    -6.4268, 57.2489, Home

    Would be a standard enough line in a POI file. There's nothing else to it because all the info is there. Using Excel is a bit misleading because of the fact that it's just text and some people save the file as a worksheet and then can't figure out why the POI loader won't load it.


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